* There are at least two other RPGs which also have a header taken entirely from Bokujou Monogatari, but which
aren't from Waixing (they even have a logo for "Hitek" in the ROM). "Heroic Sword" is one of them; the other is in GoodGBX as "Bokujou Monogatari GB2 (Unl)", even though it clearly has nothing whatsoever to do with Harvest Moon aside from the header. Curiously, these also seem to share a sound engine with the relevant Waixing games...which appears to be stolen from Link's Awakening.[/quote]
Terrifying 911 I
think uses the Link's Awakening sound engine too, which is kind of not hugely surprising since it's credited to Hitek explicitly. It's hard to tell, since the only video I know of is this review (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNQjU2BXMts), which has a dude talking over most of it, but they talk about the sound around 5:10 and you get to hear a bit of it. Gowin's color games use the LA sound engine too - maybe a developer in common between all three of them there?
The somewhat-unexpected thing is that Terrifying 911 uses PC Paint fonts too, though, so maybe whichever developer that was is tied into the whole Gamtec group somehow? (or maybe they picked up leftover tools and stuff via Gowin from their mono games, which definitely were developed by some kind of Gamtec-connected entity)
oh and on a tenuously related note, a
lot of Sintax's games seem to be built over the first Harvest Moon - if you compare pretty much any Sintax ROM with Harvest Moon side by side, you can see they basically just overwrote the start of each bank with their own stuff, but left the Harvest Moon data in the rest of it. No idea if they actually made use of any HM code though.
- taizou
- Aug 12 2012, 04:49:49 PM
Terrifying 911 I
think uses the Link's Awakening sound engine too, which is kind of not hugely surprising since it's credited to Hitek explicitly. It's hard to tell, since the only video I know of is this review (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNQjU2BXMts), which has a dude talking over most of it, but they talk about the sound around 5:10 and you get to hear a bit of it. Gowin's color games use the LA sound engine too - maybe a developer in common between all three of them there?
The somewhat-unexpected thing is that Terrifying 911 uses PC Paint fonts too, though, so maybe whichever developer that was is tied into the whole Gamtec group somehow? (or maybe they picked up leftover tools and stuff via Gowin from their mono games, which definitely were developed by some kind of Gamtec-connected entity)[/quote]Yeah, I'd thought the same thing from what I could hear in the Terrifying 911 vid. And I'd forgotten about the Gowin games using the same sound engine.
As for fonts, the RPG that's in GoodGBX as "Bokujou Monogatari GB2 (Unl)" uses PC Paint fonts on its status screens. So clearly there's
some sort of connection between Hitek and the Gamtec cluster, but...beats me as to how tenuous the connection is.
- taizou
-
oh and on a tenuously related note, a lot of Sintax's games seem to be built over the first Harvest Moon - if you compare pretty much any Sintax ROM with Harvest Moon side by side, you can see they basically just overwrote the start of each bank with their own stuff, but left the Harvest Moon data in the rest of it. No idea if they actually made use of any HM code though.[/quote]Ah, yes, I'd noticed that with the Ice Age games a while back.
Oh, also, at least one of Gowin's color games (Magic Lamp) uses the sound engine from Castlevania II.
Oh wow, I've been playing their games on mah NEW ANDROID PHONE! They're not half bad, actually. I managed to rip some music from them, so like if you want to listen to their lazy (but MIDI-like) music, I'll upload them later. :)
:O Well well well, their logo says YOWOO, whatever that means.
BUMP!
http://apps.talkandroid.com/images/screenshots/229250-0.png (http://apps.talkandroid.com/images/screenshots/229250-0.png)
Beta screenshot?!
Sorry for yet another bump, but I have some news!
Taizou tried to dump Mewtwo Strikes Back, and it failed, so I asked for the broken ROM.
The 'Maker Code' in it is GC! Now, we need to figure what this stands for.
Is it just 'Game Color'?
I have seen GC in many of the Yong Yong games anyways, usually as 'gcn', or just GC at the end of the ROM.
And, on a less serious note, Mewtwo Strikes Back's header is "POCKETMONSTER3". I've always wondered why loads of it was stolen from Pocket Monster for the Mega Drive! So I suppose that it was supposed to be the third in the series.
Makon also did this with Pokemon Adventure! In there, it's title in the header? Nothing but "POKEMONGOLD 2"! Now that will explain why they added the Pokedex data at the start.
Why were these not called as they should be in the header? We'll never know, until we get in contact with the guy. :\
The more Makon games we get dumped (even bad dumps!), the more we uncover of them.
I myself only have Digimon 2 english (and 3D Blast 5 on it's way, thanks to Qiezei) but really, we need more! :D
Hey guys, nobody saw the other stuff I said, but you'll probably wanna hear what I noticed some time ago.
...
They stole a LOT from Antz. I can't believe I only noticed about a month ago, I've had the damn game since I got a GBC. :lol:
Infact, here's a chart of stuff I noticed!
(http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg633/RobGBA/Antz-Makon-Graph_zps4dbdc1e9.png)
And this may seem really odd, but they stole the sound engine if you hear closely, and made BAD use of it. D: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aIVJRyYv3s)
BUMP!
You guys should hear some of Makon's stuff in reverse. The crappy ones sounds 'decent' reversed, and I have a feeling that tonight's gonna be a good night :lol: they're stolen from somewhere.
Well, Makon Soft's Rockman and Sonic games ripped off music from those respective series. (Albeit to the extent that the songs are barely recognisable)
Figured we need some footage of Rolling Ball. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hOgDrgllqM)
I searched makonsoft android and got Makon Mobile Studios-Android手机游戏合辑-Android91手机应用中心 which took me to this site. http://ibbs.91.com/ (http://ibbs.91.com/) is that their stuff? It looks like I found a game with scrat from ice age in a bubble bobble like game called "Of Bubble Bobble Rats Atlantis" on the site. Could it be their work? I mean just look at this picture looks like a bootleg to me :D
(http://img1.sjpic.91rb.com/soft/2013/2/7/45cbc8c1b0cf4769ae73c98a50fdf4fc/thumb_7da1d34c89cb4eb7aa42a52dc5fd436c_288x480.jpg)
no I dont think so, that just looks like a generic Android forum/site. I guess at some point they had info about Makon's games when they were still on sale.
Oh that. That's just one of those games by Gameloft where you have to build a village, and that one's called Ice Age Village. (like the ones of Facebook.)
No, I don't think so. When I was playing it what you had to do was shoot fruit at other fruit hanging from the cealing to get points and make the fruit fall. Nothing like building a village. It even says bubble bobble in its name translated from Chinese. Here, this image is more helpful to my point.
(http://img1.sjpic.91rb.com/soft/2013/2/7/45cbc8c1b0cf4769ae73c98a50fdf4fc/thumb_e7a2fad258a14278815dd4f10028b887_288x480.jpg)
It's also not on the appstore. Though I know that this isn't makonsoft studio, but I don't think it's official either.
maybe it'd be more helpful if you actually post a link to the game.
Oh yeah silly me. Here you go (http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&ei=mmZGUYVbkvKsAdGjgNgN&hl=en&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dmakonsoft%2Bandroid%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26rlz%3D1Y1LUNP_enUS513US513%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D800&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=zh-CN&u=http://d.91.com/Soft/Android/com.moreshine.bubblegame.dj-21-1.2.7.dj.html&usg=ALkJrhg1B6bZpbVMGTcn1ymfl_LvFyqLNw)
Edited to add that the page was put through Google translate because that is what I entered the site through. I went back to look for the original but couldn't remember the pages I went through so I went through my search history and found this page again. Just said this to make sure that it won't bother anyone's internet browser or hinders the download or something. I don't know. And that's why it's in English instead of the original Chinese.
Yeah, I don't think this is anything Makon would make, it just looks like some kind of Puzzle Bobble clone.
Yeah it seems to be by a developer called Moreshine.
I'm supposing they got removed off the Play Store with Makon aswell. :\ Oh Google, you sure do like removing shitty developers.
Hey Rob, how'd you get the apk file for magic ball? When I followed those links towards the top they basically said that it was undownloadable.
Magic Ball? I don't have that one. o_o
I just nabbed Rolling Ball before some other links died.
- RobGBA
- Mar 19 2013, 11:54:08 AM
Magic Ball? I don't have that one. o_o
I just nabbed Rolling Ball before some other links died.[/quote]oh I guess I meant rolling ball :)
I found the apk files for all three games and they are working. From the same site as the scrat bootleg. Here you go (http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&ei=xgRJUd_VOqnHigKhxoHQBw&hl=en&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcrazy%2Bball%2Bmakon%2Bapk%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D800&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=zh-CN&u=http://d.91.com/ComHandler/SoftByAuthor%3Fauthor%3DMakon%2520Mobile%2520Studios&usg=ALkJrhgJO8XpHre8VwvbrF8rxxbphEVcUA) :D